GREAT BAY – The United People’s party may have become the largest party in Monday’s elections, but its party-leader Theo Heyliger suffered a personal defeat at the hands of the voters. He lost more than 25 percent of his voter-support, as the table with this article shows. The best performer in the elections was DP-Minister Emil Lee, who outvoted his party leader Sarah Wescot-Williams by more than 200 votes and saw his performance in office rewarded with 667 votes – 134 percent more than the votes he won in his inaugural elections in 2014. One may well wonder about the…
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The surprising turn of events after there seemed to be an agreement to continue with the incumbent coalition has given the country basically the same result, be it with a couple of twists. Again we have a coalition holding ten seats. In terms of majorities that’s about as good as it gets. The concern here is about the fate of the new hospital. There is a contract with Inso but it is no secret that the UP – that will hold the ministry of public health, has wildly different ideas about this initiative. We trust that the new minister will…
Rumors have been circulating about members-elect of parliament already jumping ship or declaring themselves independent before 24 hours have even been passed or a government has been formed. If we recall, the elections yesterday were called with the condition that electoral reform be addressed by the present government. However, reform has not been forthcoming nor do we expect such to happen anytime soon. The preliminary results have shown that a number of shipjumpers in the past have not made the cut and have seemingly been ‘punished’ by the electorate for their behavior. The election results have indicated thus far that…
Artist rendition of what project would look like, once completed. Image contributed GREAT BAY – Plans for the construction of affordable housing units on a parcel of land at Welgelegen in Cay Hill, are closer to realization following a symbolic groundbreaking event, held last Friday afternoon. Present for the occasion were Finance Minister Richard Gibson, Vromi-Minister Angel Meyers, APS board chairman Franklyn Richards, board member Guilliano Saturnilia, director Nadya van Putten, Manager Finance and Investments George Willems and project manager Kendra Arnell, along with architects David Morrison, John Baker and Ron Daal (Engineering Consulting Firm ICE). During the event, designs…
Governor Drs. Eugene Holiday (left) speaks with the chairman of the Central Voting Bureau Jason Rogers (center) while Justice Minister Edson Kirindongo is an interested listener. Photo Today / Milton Pieters GREAT BAY – After all the hoopla in the run-up to Election Day, the mother of all elections got off to a slow start, showing that the electorate does not care about the advice to use the morning hours to cast their vote. Turnout was disappointing: 65.4 percent versus 70 percent two years ago. The polls opened at 8 a.m. and at 9 a.m. there were four polling stations…
What insights can Mother Nature offer to a business? According to the C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Environmental Education Centre in Chennai, India – www.cpreec.org – Mother Nature has her own ‘waste disposal’ solutions in place for millions of years. Predator animals in the forests kill only when they are hungry. Once the predator has eaten its share, scavengers like the hyena feed on the remains. What is left of the bones attract insects such as flies. The leftovers are broken up by microorganisms like the bacteria and the fungi. All things that were once alive in time become part of the earth again. The website www.asknature.org states…
The coalition of National Alliance, United St. Maarten Party and Democratic Party has won the elections, even though opposition party UP captured the most votes – but not by a large margin. The election result is good for the country because it guarantees that the incumbent government will be able to continue the work it started nine months ago. The elections also sent some ship jumpers home which many will consider a just punishment for throwing the country into disarray. Whatever anybody may think of this result, the voters have spoken. Now it is up to the new team to…
Sources close to the National Alliance camp have revealed that the National Alliance (NA) and the United Peoples (UP) party have signed an agreement to form a new coalition and a new government last night. Sources say William Marlin, Silveria Jacobs, Theo Heyliger and Franklin Meyers signed an agreement last night to form the next government. The deputy leader of the National Alliance who has won the most votes again in this election has put her foot down and says she will not work with Frans Richardson’s US party. Frans Richardson and Silvio Matser are livid at the prospect of…
TodayNewspaper.Online brings you live and real-time analysis of the election results as they come in. The final results are in and are as follows: OSPP – 204 UP – 4127 USP – 2796 SDM – 603 SMCP – 856 HOPE – 75 PPA – 229 DP – 1810 NA – 3783 The seat allotments are as follows: UP – 5 USP – 3 DP – 2 NA – 5 The threshold for a seat is presently 966. But we expected this quota to rise to over 1000 votes at the end of the night as the invalid votes are deducted. The final results are online at:…
Towards the end of the day, these supporters of the Democratic Party had some energy left for a photo shoot. Photo Today / Milton Pieters GREAT BAY – Despite what appeared to be a largely incident-free Election Day, some of the candidates were concerned by the change in the regulation about a ban on campaigning by candidates or supporters within 200 meters of polling stations. For one candidate, the low voter turnout early into polling, even within two hours before close of polls was a major concern. National Alliance #13 candidate Jimmy Challenger was very concerned about both issues. The…
